I'd like to take a moment to announce the next Logickal release. It is a nine-track LP of experimental electronic/ambient music that I have been working on for some time - the original recordings originate from the same period as the work that became SOLIS, but these had a different vibe. They felt quite different from the sci-fi soundtrack work, with their own character, so I have been holding onto them, revisiting them periodically ever since to nurture them into this release that now means quite a lot to me.

It seems odd to release this music at this moment. When I listen to it, I hear shades of innocence, of joyfulness and playfulness. But as I sit here in early November, 2024 I do not feel joyful. I do not feel playful. Certainly our world lacks innocence. I think you can also hear some premonitory shades of our current day as well; there is darkness here - the apocalypse looms, or its aftermath is being felt.

Our country seems to have rolled over and acquiesced to its deepest, most hurtful and vicious impulses. Rolling back of rights of people, threats to targeting the 'Enemy Within', things that are absolutely antithetical to my conception of what the United States was supposed to be about.

But, wasn't it ever thus? I am student enough of history to know that our country is founded upon an evil bargain - a pact to ensure unity in the moment that incurred a debt later paid for in blood, again and again. A debt that we are still paying for to this day.

However, I'm reminded of the inspirations for much of this music. My daughter, Sophi, has taught me so much about the changes in the world, children who have rapidly gained a jaundiced eye towards the situation they're seeing. So much is made about the generational stereotypes, but I think the youth coming into adulthood right now have more in common with their parents than they realize. Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s in what is typically considered a 'broken' home, those of us who were 'latchkey kids' learned early on to be distrustful, cynical and somewhat bitter about what we saw. But for all of the similarities, they do think differently from us, speak a different, strange and beautiful language of their own.

So, the music on this record - much of it was inspired directly by my daughter. Memories of her as a small child, moments with her now as a young adult, and everything in between. While the world feels barren and nightmarish, there is a new humanity that cannot help but to inherit it, and we need to listen to their words and help feed that flame of anger... and of hope.

I hope this music reminds everyone who hears of that hopefulness and wonder hidden amongst the ruins. Find that, and nurture it because the children of this new world will need all of the help they can get.

Future Language will be releasing digitally and on CD on December 17. I can't wait to share it with you all.